Relative sea-level data preclude major late Holocene ice-mass change in Pine Island Bay

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Braddock, S, Hall, BL, Johnson, JS, Balco, G, Spoth, M, Whitehouse, PL, Campbell, S, Goehring, BM, Rood, DH, Woodward, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2022
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Geology; GROUNDING-LINE RETREAT; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; WEST ANTARCTICA; MARGUERITE BAY; EXPOSURE AGES; VICTORIA LAND; SHEET; UPLIFT; THWAITES; GLACIER; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Island Bay; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Pine Island Bay; South Shetland Islands; Thwaites Glacier; Victoria Land; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Pine Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/98214; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00961-y

The rapidly retreating Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers together dominate present-day ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and are implicated in runaway deglaciation scenarios. Knowledge of whether these glaciers were substantially smaller in the mid-Holocene and subsequently recovered to the...